Behold, my gym:
No, it's not a Milla Jovovitch movie. It's what I did today, for the first time in at least six months; I laced up my skates, swore vigorously at the leaden and lumpy sky, and hit the Seawall, fortunately only metaphorically. I did, in fact, return to Lost Lagoon.
I am absolutely fucking hysterically giddy and a half to report that now, after two years of developer-based interference, you can finally skate all the way from the Main Street Viaduct to Stanley Park continuously, without any stupid detours for construction or stairs or elevators, or trying to sneak through the bridgeway from the Seabus because, face it, they have cameras and loudspeakers and they live to make you look like an ass for trying to sneak through that goddam bridgeway that your own tax dollars paid for in the first place.
Here's the secret: You skate along under Canada Place, as usual. Keep going. At a certain point, the roadway bends to the left sharply to go up to connect somehow with Burrard and there's a parkade on the right just at that corner. Go into the parkade and out the back end of it; you'll be right by the seaplane dock. The seaplane dock place has a beautiful, freshly-paved walk/skate/bikeway that connects, within a few dozen feet, with the Seawall. Voilà! 
Don't say I never did nuthin' for ya! This is the only place on the whole of the World Wide Web you'll find that super-seecrud seekrit.
Every time I get out and get some exercise I feel like such a twat for all the hours I wasted sitting on my butt on my really quite uncomfortable office chair, thinking gee, I really should go out and get some exercise. I mean, not only is it doing my caboosage some good, but today while out doing what is essentially a personal-development chore, I saw two Great Blue Herons, a Bald Eagle, innumerable ravens, a Cooper's Hawk, four or five kinds of ducks, a seal, and a wolf.
AND I WAS DOWNTOWN!
raincoaster 
A wolf?
It WAS on a leash, but yes. A timber wolf. It’s supposed to be illegal to keep them as pets now, but this one was old enough to have been grandfathered.
I DID see a rat, too, but nobody thinks anything of those. Nor raccoons, nor skunks. At least I didn’t hit any this time.
Awesome, awesome that you got out! I love Lost Lagoon. (Childhood memories)
Ahh, but this was back in March. Besides, I’ve never thought of you as being less
than active.
My awakening from hibernation, on the other hand, has been very slow in coming….
Blah. Wake me when it’s all over. ;)
Nah, waking you up now; the summer’s just starting! I’ve had two and a half years of basically sitting around on my butt being ill, so it’s good to get out, finally. Today I walked home from Broadway and Granville, and am hoping to get out for another skate soon.
Good on ya, hon! *hugs* Well, it’s gorgeous outside. Even though I have things to
catch up on in the house (such as emails *ahem* Not to mention, the cheque book), going to get outside for awhile!